15th January: A Red Kite drifted over Brean village. The Lesser Yellowlegs remains on the Brue estuary where there were also 2 Spotted Redshank.

9th January: As you were really with just the Lesser Yellowlegs and Snow Bunting to report.

8th January: The Lesser Yellowlegs remains on the Brue as does the confiding Snow Bunting on Burnham beach. 5 Pochard were on Morland pool.

7th January: Both the Lesser Yellowlegs and the Snow Bunting remain in situ.  A rather poorly looking 1st winter Kittiwake was on Apex lake.

6th January: The Lesser Yellowlegs was again on the Brue where there were also 40 Golden Plover, 1 Grey Plover and around 1,000 Lapwing

5th January: Extremely nasty conditions over the last few days has keep most people indoors. However, the Lesser Yellowlegs and Spotted Redshank remain on the Brue estuary where there are also 330 Redshank and 12 Golden Plover.  Nearby the very confiding Snow Bunting is still on Burnham beach.

3rd January: A different Snow Bunting to the Burnham bird was flushed from the Brue estuary today.

2nd January: The Lesser Yellowlegs remains on the Brue estuary together with the Spotted Redshank.

1st January: Happy New Year! The Lesser Yellowlegs remained around the Brue Estuary, where there was 1 Spotted Redshank and 25 Redshank. On the Parrett Estuary there are plenty of ducks including 8 Pintail, 700 Teal and 800 Wigeon. The Burnham Snow Bunting was showing well on the tide-line this morning amongst the hoards of new year walkers. Also on the shore was a washed up wooden pallet covered in Goose Barnacles. At Brean the Bewick's Swan was still among the Mute Swan herd and 2 Black Redstart were around the Caravans near the down.

Lesser Yellowlegs, Brue Estuary. 1st January 2012.